Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - YOU NEED TO WORK HARDER

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

This episode is/was in early access for members from Tue, 5 Aug 2025 until Tue, 19 Aug 2025. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — In a world of instant gratification and easier access to everything than ever before, people have never been lazier than they are right now. That gives you an opportunity every day to outwork, out-perform, and out-think everybody you're up against, and win even more. Push yourself on a daily basis, and you will dominate. Spoken by: Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella Andy Elliot instagram.com/officialandyelliott Jocko Willink instagram.com/jockowillink Tony Robbins twitter.com/tonyrobbins Ed Mylett instagram.com/edmylett Owen Cook twitter.com/OwenCookX Music: Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream Clint Mansell twitter.com/iamclintmansell

The real battleground is in your mind. You got people betting against you. They're like, he ain't going to do it. I bet there's a person inside of you that says, now you're not going to do this. You're going to have to fight that. You know who my own worst enemy is? Freaking me.

This battle has no opponent. It is only you versus you. The only motherfucking thing that beats you as you. The only thing that could stop you is you. You guys got a person inside of you, and that's the old you. Dude, I got a person right here that's standing back here in this mirror waiting for me to back kettle and go back to my own life. I see that son of a bitch every day. I'm going to keep out growing.

I'm going to keep moving. Ain't no way in hell I'm going back there. And those little things, those little menial tasks that add up, you have to execute them. And when your brain tells you that you're going to keep them. And when your brain tells you that you got a great reason today not to do it, and you want to listen to your brain, because your brain doesn't want you to be a big success. Your brain just wants to keep you alive.

Your brain doesn't give a fuck about your little dreams. It's going to lie to you. It's going to trick you. And you know what it sounds like? Train smarter, not farger. No, actually, keep training hard. If you're totally committed, what do you do? Always tell people, if you want to take the island, burn the boats.

Because as long as there's a way out, our brains will take it. I gave myself no way out in my mind realized that it's okay we're going to adapt and overcome now because he is not going to stop you need to win battles in order to win the war you need to get out of bed you need to run you need to work out

you need to read and study and practice and you need to do things that you don't necessarily want to do and I know that can be hard that's why people lose the war your feelings will never cooperate with your dream You have to reserve your feelings and do it anyway.

The daily fight is a challenge. That's right. It's going to suck. It doesn't matter. Work harder. When something sucks, good. It's going to make me tougher. It's going to give me a good story to tell.

It's going to toughen my mind. I don't negotiate with weakness. I'm not trying to convince myself. I'm not trying to negotiate with myself. I'm not debating what I should do. I am executing the plan. and I recommend that you do the same. Don't talk.

Go execute. Easy choices lead to a hard life. Hard choices lead to an easy light. You may not want to fight that battle, but you need to. You need to know your strategic goals, and you need to know why they are important, and then you need to get up. Get out of your damn bed. Get off your phone, and get to work.

Hard work works. And you know what's great about our culture, y'all? The world's lazy. It's a good thing for you and me. Nobody wants to do it. Everybody will talk about it. Everybody will post about it. But nobody wants to roll with their sleeves and just go get it.

You can change you. You'd be surprised how good you'd be if you just decide to win. Be number one in your office. Number one in your region. It takes a want to become a number one. Number one's never cut corners. Number ones never take breaks. Number ones don't drop the fucking ball.

They are on it. They have a sense of urgency. They can care. And they're going to get everything done that they need to get done to win. Your success is going to be predicated more than anything on your hunger and desperation level and your ability to get laser focused and eliminate the distractions in your life. We think if we got up early for four days, we've earned something. You've got to drop your entire mindset.

It's not acceptable. You need to fucking work harder. You need to fucking discipline your mind better. ABD, you always be developing. If you're not developing, you're losing. Study yourself the way the best hedge fund managers study stocks, and look how quickly you'll start changing many of your bad habits with good ones. Work harder on you.

Go invest in you. That's the best investment. Develop your skills. If you're the best doctor or lawyer or a salesperson or whatever, it doesn't matter what happens in the economy. You're going to do well, and it gets better with time. Most people work the hardest when trying to reach the top. Once they can get to that $100,000, once they get to that million dollars, they've worked as hard as they can work.

The great ones work even harder after they get to the $100,000, harder after they get to the million, harder after they're famous, harder after they've got a big following, harder after they get that promotion. The great ones work even harder after they get what they want. You already know what to put in your body. You know how to shoot your body. You know what to put in your brain. You know how you should be using the hours that you have. It's just getting yourself to actually do it. successful people become successful people. They pay the price other people aren't willing to pay. They understand what they have to do that they're going to have to do shit that they fucking hate. But what they also understand is they're not

willing to settle for anything less than what they want. If you want to dictate the life on your terms, if you want to dictate the success that you're going to create, And if you're ambitious to the point where you're not satisfied with living the status quo bullshit, you've got to learn to master the that everybody else thinks is irrelevant. When you start working non-stop and pushing yourself every single day, your life is going to get better. There is no question.